Dream Narratives: The American dream What has changed?
INSTRUCTIONS:
Many authors have tackled the age old theme of the American dream as they have struggled with their own personal experiences of growing up in the United States.
Compare the theme of education and conformity in Sylvia Plath’ s “America! America!” and Kevin Jennings’ “American Dreams.” These two personal narratives were written nearly fifty years apart. What has changed? What hasn’t? How do these two texts relate to and reinforce ideas presented in the reading on pages 149-169 of Michel Foucault’ s Discipline and Punish? 6AFor Foucault, the ultimate purpose of incarceration is neither to punish inmates, nor to reduce crime. It is to produce delinquency
The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, as well as an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.
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